Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour

*Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour*
Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour
Genre	Comedy
Directed by	Mark Goode
Starring	Pat Paulsen; Billy Sands;
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Ken Kragen; Neil Rosen;
Producers	Bill Carruthers; Mark Goode;
Editors	Richard F. Wilson; Emil Zvarich;
Running time	30 min
Production companies	Carruthers Company; Picky Video; ABC;
Distributor	ABC
Release
Original network	ABC
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	January 22 –; April 16, 1970

Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour is an American half-hour television variety show that ran on ABC-TV on Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m. from January 22, 1970 to April 16, 1970.

The star was Pat Paulsen, who ran for the office of President of the United States in 1968. Paulsen had been a regular on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Jean Byron was a semi-regular. Writers included Steve Martin.

Paulsen often spoofed Then Came Bronson and played a science teacher. Guest stars included Hubert Humphrey, Angie Dickinson, Tiny Tim, Miss Vickie, Mike Connors, Dan Blocker, Henry Fonda, Tommy Smothers, Don Rickles, Don Adams, Carl Betz, the animated Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn and Joey Heatherton. On the April 9, 1970 episode, Paulsen sang the song "Did I Ever Really Live?", which was from his Mercury record album, Live at the Ice House.

The show was cancelled after 13 episodes.

MPI put the entire series out on DVD in 2009.

The series is available on Amazon Prime Video and Tubi.

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TV.COM^{[not specific enough to verify]}
MPI DVD sleeve notes
TV GUIDE, 1970 issues^{[not specific enough to verify]}

Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour

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